Today, while I was washing dishes, I was considering the fact that since the best that man could offer (gold, palaces, fine food, servants, etc.) is still not worthy of so great a King as our God, Creator, and Savior, and that God would still have to do without so much to be with us anyway, He decided to go without ANYTHING at all and be born in a cave, with no comforts of home, in the cold, and having to invite his own worshipers to boot and then flee for his life. Having nothing at all is more useful to Him than the paltry we could offer. Our best is still too meager. This made me think further...
Since God is so great and demanding of perfection ("be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect") and it seems like we as a people are acting so base these days that he should have enough of us any day now. It's a wonder He still puts up with us. But it's a joy in knowing that since we can't give Him anything good enough, He has supplied the perfect worship for us. We have only to participate in the meager way we can. We can not offer Him perfect worship without the Mass, no matter how hard we try. We are so inadequate. If mankind continues to become worse and completely degenerate, we will still continue to endure as long as some continue to offer the Perfect Sacrifice. Thank you, Jesus!
Lord, have mercy. "His mercy endures forever!" May the Mass endure on earth forever. Pray that it does.
Merry Christmas!
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The Mass (at least in essence) must last to the end of time if Christ is to truly (substantially) be with us all days - "even unto the end of the age".
And the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass must last to the end of time also because God the Father has decreed it:
"… from the rising of the sun EVEN TO THE GOING DOWN, My Name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to My Name a clean oblation, for My Name is great among the Gentiles." Mal 1:11
God bless.
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